misdiagnose
misdiagnose — 動詞
- misdiagnose,,present simple I / you / we / they
- misdiagnosepresent simple I / you / we / they
- misdiagnoses,,he / she / it
- misdiagnoseshe / she / it
- misdiagnosed,,past simple
- misdiagnosedpast simple
- misdiagnosing,,-ing form
- misdiagnosing-ing form
1. to wrongly decide which illness or medical condition a patient has, telling them
誤診
把病情判斷錯，說成另一種病
to wrongly decide which illness or medical condition a patient has, telling them they have one thing when really they have another.
Doctors at the small clinic misdiagnosed Saira's asthma as a chest cold for nearly a year.
小診所的醫生把 Saira 的氣喘誤診為胸部感冒，前後將近一年。
misdiagnose + [condition A] as [condition B]
Caleb was misdiagnosed with anxiety, but the real problem was an overactive thyroid.
Caleb 一開始被誤診為焦慮症，但真正的問題是甲狀腺機能亢進。
passive: be misdiagnosed with + [condition]
The young doctor worried that he had misdiagnosed Mrs. Tunde's chest pain as simple heartburn.
那位年輕醫生很擔心，自己把 Mrs. Tunde 的胸痛誤診為普通胃食道逆流。
Studies show that women's heart attacks are often misdiagnosed as panic attacks in emergency rooms.
研究顯示，女性的心臟病發作在急診室常被誤診為恐慌症發作。
After two specialists misdiagnosed Omar's rash, a third doctor finally recognised the rare skin disease.
兩位專科醫師接連誤診 Omar 的紅疹後，第三位醫生終於認出那是一種罕見的皮膚病。
- misidentify
more general; covers any wrong identification, not specifically illness
- mistake (for)
everyday verb; 'mistake X for Y' often used by patients describing what happened
- diagnose correctly
neutral antonym phrase
文法句型
misdiagnose + someone
misdiagnose + someone + as having + condition
be misdiagnosed with + condition
用法筆記
Subject is usually a doctor, hospital, or medical system; object is the patient or the illness. Frequently passive in news and research writing, where the patient is the topic.
常見錯誤
2. to give a wrong explanation of what is causing a problem, or to wrongly say what
誤判；錯判
對問題的成因或性質做出錯誤判斷
to give a wrong explanation of what is causing a problem, or to wrongly say what kind of thing or person something is, outside the medical sense.
Analysts had misdiagnosed the company's losses as a marketing failure when the real cause was supply-chain delays.
分析師把公司虧損誤判為行銷失敗，但真正的原因是供應鏈延宕。
misdiagnose + [problem] as + [wrong cause]
Kenji argued that politicians keep misdiagnosing rural poverty as a problem of laziness instead of missing jobs.
Kenji 主張，政客一直把鄉村貧窮錯判為人民懶惰，而不是工作機會不足。
common in policy/social commentary
The report misdiagnosed the school's low test scores as poor teaching, ignoring the cuts to support staff.
那份報告把學校考試成績偏低誤判為教學不力，卻忽略了行政支援人力被刪減。
Many coaches misdiagnose a player's slump as a fitness issue when it is really about confidence.
許多教練會把選手的低潮錯判為體能問題，其實真正的關鍵是信心。
- misread
less formal; works for situations and signals (misread the market)
- misinterpret
focuses on understanding evidence wrongly, not on naming the cause
文法句型
misdiagnose + [problem]
misdiagnose + [problem] + as + [cause]
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: here the object is a non-medical problem (an economic loss, a social trend, a sports slump). Subject is typically an analyst, official, or institution speaking in a quasi-expert voice.